Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman?
New American Standard Bible
Or how can he be
King James Version
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Holman Bible
How can one born of woman be pure?
International Standard Version
How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?
A Conservative Version
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
American Standard Version
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Amplified
“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?
Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?
Bible in Basic English
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?
Darby Translation
And how should man be just with God? Or how should he be clean that is born of a woman?
Julia Smith Translation
And how shall man be justified with God? and how shall he born of woman be clean?
King James 2000
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?
Modern King James verseion
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be clean?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?
NET Bible
How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
New Heart English Bible
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Webster
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
World English Bible
How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?
Youngs Literal Translation
And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
Themes
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Born in sin
Justification » Of self, impossible
Justification before God » Under the law » Man cannot attain to
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 25:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Bildad's Third Speech
3 Is there any number to his troops? And upon whom ariseth not his light? 4 How then shall, a mortal, be just with GOD? Or how shall he be pure who is born of a woman? 5 Look as far as the moon, and it is not clear, and, the stars, are not bright in his eyes!
Names
Cross References
Job 9:2
Of a truth, I know that so it is, But how can a mortal be just with GOD?
Job 4:17-19
Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or a man be more pure than, his Maker?
Job 15:14-16
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Psalm 130:3
If, iniquities, thou shouldest mark, O Yah, O My Lord, who could stand?
Job 14:3-4
And yet upon such a one as this, hast thou opened thine eye? And, him, wouldst thou bring into judgment with thee?
Psalm 51:5
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Zechariah 13:1
In that day, there shall be an opened fountain, for the house of David, and for the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, - for sin and for uncleanness.
Romans 3:19-20
Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
Romans 5:1
Having, therefore, been declared righteous by faith, let us have, peace, towards God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, -
1 Corinthians 6:11
And, these things, were some of you; but ye bathed them away, - but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified, in the name of ourLord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger - even as the rest, -
1 John 1:9
If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous - that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Revelation 1:5
and from - Jesus Christ, - The Faithful Witness, The Firstborn of the Dead, and The Ruler of the Kings of the Earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us out of our sins with his blood, -